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Experts: Brain-Dead Girl May Not Be 'Alive'

Doctors want another assessment in unique US case

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By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

 

Posted Oct 26, 2014 4:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Brain-dead or not brain-dead? The question of Jahi McMath's health status has drifted into unknown territory now that she's been hooked up to machines for nearly eleven months, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Jahi, declared brain dead after a disastrous tonsillectomy in December, was found by five experts in the last month to have some brain activity; the declarations they filed in court reference MRI and EEG tests. One neurologist noted in his declaration that Jahi is menstruating, which requires brain function, Philly.com reports: "Corpses do not menstruate," he writes. But other experts say the tests are incomplete or just plain wrong. "He points out some very serious flaws," says a health expert of comments by Paul Fisher, the court-appointed neurologist who assessed Jahi over the winter; the court asked Fisher to review the latest findings.

His take: A bedside exam is a necessary part of the determination of brain death, and the new filings do not indicate that such an exam has occurred. As for videos shared by the family's lawyer that seem to show Jahi responding to her mother's commands, they "are not substitutes for in person, neurological examination," he asserts. Fisher is asking that another, neutral doctor look at Jahi, while others marvel at how the case could redefine the brain-death debate. "Right now, it is one of the very strangest" cases in recent memory, says a lawyer. "No question." Experts believe that no other patient declared brain-dead has gone through a second round of testing. (For more, read why the McMath's lawyer believes the determination of brain death has changed.)

 

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This is really getting idiotic. She isn't dead. She has SOME brain activity or else her heart would not continue to beat and her organs wouldn't continue to be perfused. She's in a Persistent Vegetative State. I dont' see why this is so " perplexing". And, as such it is highly doubtful she is going to get better. So, I think it reasonable to then discuss whether to remove life support, tube feedings, etc.
But, this being "so strange" to lawyers tells me they really don't know what they are doing.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

This is really getting idiotic. She isn't dead. She has SOME brain activity or else her heart would not continue to beat and her organs wouldn't continue to be perfused. She's in a Persistent Vegetative State. I dont' see why this is so " perplexing". And, as such it is highly doubtful she is going to get better. So, I think it reasonable to then discuss whether to remove life support, tube feedings, etc.
But, this being "so strange" to lawyers tells me they really don't know what they are doing.

She has SOME brain activity or else her heart would not continue to beat and her organs wouldn't continue to be perfused

NO! This is  wrong.

If the heart muscle is getting oxygen and glucose it will keep beating. With signals from the spinal cord (no brain activity required) it will beat at 45 to 60 beats per minute.

 

She's getting oxygen because she's on a ventilator, and she's being fed through a tube into her stomach. That keeps the other organs alive and maybe suitable for transplant.

NO BRAIN FUNCTION REQUIRED.

But, this being "so strange" to lawyers tells me they really don't know what they are doing.

This just tells me that someone is making money by keeping her body functioning.

 

 



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did you also see on the same page: mom come back from coma to deliver infant?

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